Rake.



L. E. WATERMAN.

RAKE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6, 1912 v Patented July 21, 1914.

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To all whom'it may concern;

Be it known that I, LEWIs E. WATERMAN,

a, citizen'of the United States, residing at wheel or two fixed wheels 'would be raised.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan View of a side delivery rake equipped with my rear support. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side view. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. l.

' In the drawings I have shown my supporting device attached to a side delivery rake and tedder, the construction of which is immaterial as my invention relates only and 8.

to the means of supporting its rear portion. The axle 1 is supported by the wheels 2 and 3, and mounted on said axle is the frame t which has suitable draft attachments 5 and also forms a suitable support for the rake frame 6 having side rails' 7 Bolted to the side rail 8 are the tubular brackets 9 and 10 which have connection at their upper ends with brace rods 11 and-12, which hold these brackets in a vertical position.

The arched bar 13 has one end bolted to the frame 4 and the other end to the bracket 14 secured to the side rail 8, and'tends to support the rake frame in'its normal position.

The shafts 15 and 16 are loosely supported in thebrackets 9 and 10, have caster wheels 23 mounted at their lower ends, and to their u per ends is fastened the equalizing bar 1? by the pins 18.

Pivoted to the bracket 14, is the bell-crank 19, to onearm of which is connected a rod" Specification of Letters Patent,

' equalizing-bar,

ate feililuly la Application filed August 6, 1912. serial No. 713,582.

I thumb and dog. engagement with a toothed segment.

' It'will be readily seen that by manipu' lating hand lever 22, the rake frameearr ing the rake teeth can be raised or lowered to suit the requirements.

When driving over irregular ground, or

when one of the caster wheels ride over a rock or-mound, the rakeframeis raised but one-half of the distance that the wheel raises, because of the action of the equalizing bar, also because of this manner of support, all strains are taken from the frame and caster wheel supports that are encountered in the common type of rigid supports for these wheels.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination of a frame, two wheel supports, a wheel for each support, connections between said wheel supports and frame to allow said supports vertical movement relative to the frame, and an equalizingbar pivoted intermediate its ends to a frame member and being pivotally connected on vertical axes at each end to one of said wheel supports, said wheel supports being movable rotatably to allow their wheels to caster horizontally.

2. The combination of supporting-wheels,

a. frame supported by the axle, the frame being located diagonally with respect to the said axle, supports for two wheels, said supports carried'by the rear end of the frame and movable vertically thereon, an equalizing-bar connecting the two supports, a connection between the equalizing-bar and the frame, and wheels for said wheel supports.

-3. The combination of supporting wheels, an axle supported by the wheels, one end of a frame supported-by the axle, two wheel supports carried by the opposite end of the frame and movable vertically thereon, wheels for the supports, an equalizing-bar connecting the twosupports, a supporting connection between the frame and said and means for vertically varying the support of said equalizing-bar.

4:. The combination of supporting wheels, an axle supported by the wheels, one end of a frame supported by-the axle, twobrackets supported by the other end of the frame, two wheels, supports for the wheels located in the brackets, the brackets slidable on the the frame,

Wheel supports, an equalizing bar connecting the supports, a bell-crank supported by a connection between one arm of the bell-crank and the equalizing bar, and means for rocking the bell-crank.

5. The combination of supporting wheels, an axle supported by the wheels, one end of a frame supported by the axle, two brackets supported by the other end of the frame, two Wheels, supports for the wheels located in the brackets, the brackets slidable on the wheelsupports, an equalizing bar connecting the supports, a bell-crank supported by the frame, a. connection between one arm ofthe bell-crank and the equalizing bar, and a hand-lever for rocking the bellcrank.

6. In a. rake or tedder, the combination LEWIS E. WATERMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN F. MCOANNA, Jr., E. D. E. N. BEHEL.

improvement in Rakes,

[SEAL.]

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent N 1914, upon the application of Lewis E. Waterman,

correction as follows: Page 2, line 18, for the words an error appears in the printed specification requiring wheeled support, and that the said LettersPatent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 11th day of August, A. D., 1914.

J T. NEWTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

0; 1,104,749, granted July 21,

of Rockford, Illinois, for an Wheel supported read the frame,

Wheel supports, an equalizing bar connecting the supports, a bell-crank supported by a connection between one arm of the bell-crank and the equalizing bar, and means for rocking the bell-crank.

5. The combination of supporting wheels, an axle supported by the wheels, one end of a frame supported by the axle, two brackets supported by the other end of the frame, two Wheels, supports for the wheels located in the brackets, the brackets slidable on the wheelsupports, an equalizing bar connecting the supports, a bell-crank supported by the frame, a. connection between one arm ofthe bell-crank and the equalizing bar, and a hand-lever for rocking the bellcrank.

6. In a. rake or tedder, the combination LEWIS E. WATERMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN F. MCOANNA, Jr., E. D. E. N. BEHEL.

improvement in Rakes,

[SEAL.]

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent N 1914, upon the application of Lewis E. Waterman,

correction as follows: Page 2, line 18, for the words an error appears in the printed specification requiring wheeled support, and that the said LettersPatent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 11th day of August, A. D., 1914.

J T. NEWTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

0; 1,104,749, granted July 21,

of Rockford, Illinois, for an Wheel supported read 

